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Amazon.com failure exposes shadowy origins of Paul Boutin

Paul BoutinWired has resurrected an old tradition: Get the geeks in the server room to explain why computers fail. This time, it's CondeNet CTO Rajiv Pant, explaining why Wired uses Amazon's S3 storage service despite this morning's breakdown. But last time around? Breaking down walls between the engineering quad and the newsroom resulted in ... Paul Boutin. Don't say you weren't warned.

4:00 PM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By Owen Thomas
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